The journal

September 9, 2025 · 37 words

Pod Fun

A pod of harbor seals on an outing. They were having a riotous good time, and it was a joy just watching them. This was the same day we saw the whales doing their bubble fishing thing.

September 2, 2025 · 54 words

Where’s Wally?

Where’s Wally? Right here, if you want to know. Wally is the name given a boss humpback in the Prince Rupert Sound, and is easily identified by the two spots on the white ventral surface of its tail fins. When you’re looking at Wally, Wally is also looking at you. Just a friendly warning.

September 2, 2025 · 225 words

The Pod

We have snaked out of the U.S. and back into B.C. MV Imperial Shadow spent the day in Prince Rupert, while we ventured forth to see cetaceans from yet another catamaran. Again it was a day of miraculous sun. It’s almost drought conditions here, and I’ll return to New Mexico full of tales of the […]

September 1, 2025 · 268 words

Wildlife

Eagles and bears are the two critters that most visitors here want to see here in AK— well, maybe I should add whales to the list— but so far my wildlife adventures haven’t achieved greatness. Here’s an eagle, one of a pair. They were some distance away, but my Canon has a 50-to-one zoom and […]

September 1, 2025 · 18 words

Terminator

Here in the Inside Passage, we’re so far north that the moon’s terminator appears as a vertical line.

August 31, 2025 · 112 words

Splash

The Dawes Glacier was calving like crazy on this warm afternoon, but not when my camera was pointing in the right direction. Here’s the best photo I got: it shows nothing falling but it does show the big splash afterward. The sound was a big BOOM followed by the crash of water as the ice […]

August 31, 2025 · 65 words

Blue World

Another day, another glacier. This is the Dawes Glacier at the end of the Endicott Arm, as viewed from our catamaran. The weather has been phenomenally good, sunny and in the sixties or the low seventies. The locals tell us how lucky we are not to have Nature hurl buckets of frigid water at our […]

August 30, 2025 · 216 words

Hubbard

Once we were in Seattle, it seemed only sensible to keep heading northwest, so here we are in Alaska, viewing the Hubbard Glacier from a catamaran. The glacier is 76 miles long and 7 miles wide as it enters Disenchantment Bay. The ice wall is 17 storeys high and extends a further 200 feet under […]

August 19, 2025 · 0 words

IT’S ALIVE!

August 19, 2025 · 10 words

Another Menace from Beyond Time and Space

This is maybe 5 meters tall. From the Chihuly Museum.

August 18, 2025 · 3 words

What the Whole World Will Look Like after Cthulhu Wins the War

Chihuli Museum, Seattle

August 12, 2025 · 210 words

Momentum

I’ll be heading to Worldcon tomorrow, and afterwards enjoy a couple weeks’ vacation. This was all planned months ago, without knowing I was going to be trying to finish Heaven in Flames around this time. I finished the penultimate chapter last week, and then decided not to write the finale right away, but go back [&hel